Part 2/4 WHAT WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SETBACK OR DELAY AND HOW LONG WERE YOU DERAILED FOR? Our biggest delay started in Panama and ended about three weeks later in Ecuador. Shipping the car was a...

Time to take a detour from my search for waves and mysticism in Costa Rica. My next several entries will be parts of an interview with an incredible man, Zack Hill. A good friend from a past life,...

It was time for my journey to expand beyond the central Pacific coast, and Costa Rica is such a small place, that moving from one peninsula to another was a snap. Well, not exactly. My goal was to...

Moving on in my journey through one of the most invigorating natural landscapes in the world, I am graciously invited to stay at my friend's house in the private community at Escondido. When I...

Playa Hermosa attracts mostly surfers. Although the Ticos call it beautiful beach, it is far less appealing for the non-surfing crowd. That's why I always wonder why there are so many women that...

Costa Rica was once an exotic, remote and desolate surf paradise. When the original surf crew from my hometown began to venture forth in the mid-eighties, urged on by early surf movies like Burning...

Big Sur -- our living planet on full display! No place in California shows off such dramatic coastal landscapes. Morning can arrive with a cloak of white fog hanging over the coastal bluffs. Come...

In order to take on surf breaks in foreign lands you have to sport a mask of power, a sort of voodoo protection from harm. The ocean is a furious playground, and it would be sketchy enough paddling...

Highlights of my inaugural, memorable white water rafting trip: 1) How easy it was to fall asleep in the shuttle bus on the way back to San Jose after the adventure. 2) Watching a clueless German...

Two plus hours of constant paddling and spray in the face got us almost half way to the bottom of the run. Damn, only half way? This was no hop skip jump rafting experience, we were exhausted and...

COSTA RICA! The rich coast, the pure life, the irie land! This small country roughly the size of West Virginia packs quite a punch despite being dwarfed in comparison with other countries. There is...